This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Thursday the 5th of December, these are our main stories.

The French government has collapsed after the Prime Minister Michel Barnier lost a vote of no confidence in Parliament.

Police in Mexico say they've made their biggest ever seizure of the synthetic opioid fentanyl responsible

for thousands of deaths in the United States and around the world. Many people, including children,

have been killed in an Israeli air strike at Khan Yunus in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Also in this podcast, how progressive Sweden is changing.

I just want to cook and clean and I want to be a housewife.

I'm not making money.

I'm not pursuing a career right now.

I'm just, my life is softer.

I'm not struggling.

I'm not very stressed.

We begin in Paris.

Majority requisite for the adoption of the motion of censure 288.

For the adoption, 331.

French politicians have ousted the government in a no-confidence vote,

leaving the prospect of months of turmoil in France.

Michel Barnier is the first French Prime Minister to be dismissed in this way since 1962.

Opposition parties called the vote after Mr Barnier used special powers to force through controversial social security reforms.

In the no-confidence debate, the far-right leader, Marine Le Pen,

said the minority government had refused to make sufficient budget concessions

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